Crime · Mystery · Thriller
American
2007 · Directed by David Fincher · 157 min
San Francisco, 1969. A killer who signs his letters with a crosshair symbol begins writing to the newspapers, and a crime reporter, a police inspector and a newspaper cartoonist are each drawn into the case. Fincher tells it as a meticulous period procedural rather than a horror film.
Why it matters in cinema history
A key film of the post-2000 true-crime drama and an early demonstration that digital cinematography could deliver a richly textured, painstaking period reconstruction on a studio scale.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a film about information: how a fact travels from a letter to a desk, a newsroom, a police file and a person.
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